论美国后现代派小说的新模式和新话语

American Postmodernist Fiction: New Patterns and New Types of Discourse

美国后现代派小说自 196 1年《第二十二条军规》问世至今 ,经历了两大发展阶段 ,涌现许多佳作。本文深入评析了这些名作的 6种新模式和 5种新话语 ,并指出它们每部小说主要采用一种创作模式 ,但叙事话语往往交叉出现 ,不局限于单一的话语。作家常常在不确定的语言符号组合里戏仿、嘲讽 ,表露对现实的批评。

Since the publication of Catch 22 in 1961 till the present, American postmodernist fiction has undergone two stages with many masterpieces appearing. Different from the traditional or modernist novels, postmodernist novels have made good experiments with new types of discourse and new patterns of narrative and have formed their unique traits. This article gives detailed analyses and comments on 6 new patterns and 5 new types of discourse of these novels and points out that each of them mainly employs one pattern to construct the text while making use of more than one new types of discourse. The authors, while playing with the uncertainty of the signs, also make their criticism on social reality through parody and irony.